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Accelerating Performance by Incrementally Integrating Rust into Existing Codebase

Lily Mara explains how to avoid high-risk software rewrites through incremental FFI refactoring. She shares how engineering teams can replace Python bottlenecks with Rust via PyO3, demonstrating how to achieve dramatic function-level speedups, seamless integration testing, and meaningful infrastructure cost savings without microservice overhead.

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Building a Session-Ordered Kafka Pipeline in Go

The article describes a custom implementation that provides a session-level ordering on top of Apache Kafka partitions, supporting strict message ordering across 1000s of independent channels. The solution required application-level routing, consistent hashing, retries, and contiguous watermark commits. Engineers conducted operational hardening supported by extensive performance testing.

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Ontology‐Driven Observability: Building the E2E Knowledge Graph at Netflix Scale

Prasanna Vijayanathan and Renzo Sanchez-Silva share how Netflix tackles observability across 38M events/sec. They discuss replacing reactive monitoring with an AI-driven operational ontology and agentic workflows using Claude and graph databases. They explain how unifying MELT telemetry into queryable knowledge graphs enables automated triaging, root-cause analysis, and self-healing systems.

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The Minimum Viable Manager: Building Trust, Feedback, and Alignment

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Matt Gjertsen, founder of Built and author of Minimum Viable Manager, about the three foundational skills every first-time manager needs, how to build trust and give effective feedback, and why human leadership skills matter even more in the age of AI.

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Building Resilient Platforms: Insights from 20+ Years in Mission-Critical Infrastructure

Matthew Liste explains the 12 core principles of building scalable, reliable platforms for enterprise tech teams. From avoiding technical debt and managing deprecation to building a strong engineering culture, Liste discusses how to design infrastructure platforms that reduce complexity, streamline developer workflows, and deliver long-term value for senior architects and engineering leaders.

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Aish Fenton on Machine Learning at Netflix

Aish Fenton explains how machine learning is used at Netflix for recommendations but also for many more applications.

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Accelerating Performance by Incrementally Integrating Rust into Existing Codebase

Building a Session-Ordered Kafka Pipeline in Go

Ontology‐Driven Observability: Building the E2E Knowledge Graph at Netflix Scale

The Minimum Viable Manager: Building Trust, Feedback, and Alignment

Building Resilient Platforms: Insights from 20+ Years in Mission-Critical Infrastructure

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The Async Multiprocessing Has Sound Foundations in Linux, But Further Testing is Needed

Github Migrates Copilot Runtime to Rust with AI-Assisted Rewrite

Grab Redesigns Counter Service Storage for 50% Lower P99 Latency

Building a Session-Ordered Kafka Pipeline in Go

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Ontology‐Driven Observability: Building the E2E Knowledge Graph at Netflix Scale

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